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Word: Hypallage
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek hupallagē, from hupo ‘under’ + allassein ‘to exchange’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
hʌɪˈpalədʒiː
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
hɪˈpalədʒiː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition, for example in the sentence ‘Melissa shook her doubtful curls’.
Short Definition:transposition of natural relations of two elements in proposition
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